On a mission to bring natural language understanding to the next level
Based on neuroscientific research, Cortical.io's unique technology overcomes many obstacles in dealing with terabytes of unstructured text data

Launch of Retina API 1.0

Release of Retina API 2.0

Incorporation of US subsidiary

Strategic Partnership with Numenta

Opening of a Bay Area office

Launch of Retina Spark 2.0

Enterprise license signed with large financial institution

Q4 2017

Opening of a New York office

Q4 2017

Enterprise license signed with large networking manufacturer

Q3 2018

Joint business relationship with PwC Germany

About us

Cortical.io provides natural language understanding (NLU) solutions that enable large enterprises to automate the extraction, monitoring, and analysis of key information from any kind of text data. By understanding the meaning of text, Cortical.io Retina software reduces the time and effort it takes to complete business-critical data search and review processes. Many repetitive and error-prone manual steps are eliminated, freeing up valuable resources to focus on higher-value tasks.

Cortical.io solutions can be quickly trained without supervision in the specialized vocabulary of any business domain and in multiple languages. Our enterprise-grade technology is implemented at multiple Fortune 100 businesses, covering a wide spectrum of use cases.

Our unique approach is inspired by the latest findings on the way the brain processes information. It helps businesses solve many open NLU challenges like meaning-based filtering of terabytes of unstructured text data, real-time topic detection in social media, or semantic search over millions of documents across languages. Our work has been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and Gartner.

Cortical.io was founded in 2011 and holds a broad general license for Numenta’s HTM technology. We have offices in Europe (HQ in Vienna) and in the US (New York and San Francisco).

Lukas Weiss

Virginia Gilcrease

Alex Peyrer-Heimstätt

Cooperation partners

In May 2015, we entered a strategic partnership with Numenta, that grants us a broad general license to the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) technology. Combined with our Semantic folding methodology, it will enable us to develop solutions for sentiment analysis, automatic summarization, semantic search, and conversational dialogue systems.